Learn electronics with arduino

TECHnoLogY in ACTion™ Learn Electronics with Arduino Learn eLectronics concepts whiLe buiLding practicaL devices and cooL toys with arduino Don Wilcher www.it-ebooks.info For your convenience Apress has placed some of the front matter material after the index Please use the Bookmarks and Contents at a Glance links to access them www.it-ebooks.info Contents at a Glance Foreword xiii About the Author xv About the Technical Reviewer xvii Acknowledgments xix Introduction xxi ■■Chapter 1: Electronic Singing Bird .1 ■■Chapter 2: Mini Digital Roulette Games 27 ■■Chapter 3: An Interactive Light Sequencer Device 51 ■■Chapter 4: Physical Computing and DC Motor Control .69 ■■Chapter 5: Motion Control with an Arduino: Servo and Stepper Motor Controls 89 ■■Chapter 6: The Music Box 119 ■■Chapter 7: Fun with Haptics 149 ■■Chapter 8: LCDs and the Arduino 179 ■■Chapter 9: A Logic Checker 205 ■■Chapter 10: Man, It’s Hot: Temperature Measurement and Control 227 Index 251 v www.it-ebooks.info Introduction Have you ever wondered how electronic products are created? Do you have an idea for a new electronic gadget but no way of testing the feasibility of the device? Have you accumulated a junk box of electronic parts and now wonder what to build with them? Well, this book will answer all your questions about discovering cool and innovative applications for electronic gadgets using the Arduino The book makes use of the Arduino plus discrete, integrated circuit components and solderless breadboards Multisim software is used for circuit simulation and design equations Who Should Read This Book? This book is for anyone interested in building cool Arduino electronic gadgets using simple prototyping techniques How This Book Is Structured The chapters in this book are organized in such a way that the reader can choose to jump around the projects and discovery labs Each chapter gives an introduction to the relevant key electronics components and supporting technologies Also, each chapter explains the basic theory of operation of the electronic circuits with detailed circuit schematic diagrams Build instructions with troubleshooting tips are included to help you detect and fix hardware/software bugs for each project Last but not least, each chapter zooms in on a specific aspect of electronics technology followed by several semiconductor device-specific experiments The experiments will help you understand the semiconductor device’s electrical behavior as well as the setup of basic electronic test equipment and the Arduino software IDE tool via sketches You’ll be introduced to circuit analysis techniques and the Discovery Method, which offers suggestions for further fun ways of learning about electronics technology The goal of these hands-on activities is to encourage readers (whether inventors, engineers, educators, or students) to develop skills in engineering their own cool gadgets using simple prototyping techniques Downloading the Code The code for the examples shown in this book is available on the Apress web site, www.apress.com A link can be found on the book’s information page under the Source Code/Downloads tab This tab is located underneath the Related Titles section of the page Contacting the Author Should you have any questions or comments—or if you spot a mistake—please contact the author at author@writing.com xxi www.it-ebooks.info Chapter Electronic Singing Bird The Arduino is a small yet powerful computer board that uses physical computing techniques with an Atmel microcontroller (processing development environment) and the C programming language To illustrate the versatility of the Arduino in turning ordinary electronic circuits into cool smart devices, I will show how to make an interactive electronic singing bird in this chapter The required parts are pictured in Figure 1-1 Parts List Arduino Duemilanove or equivalent 0.047uF capacitor 0.1uF capacitor 470uF electrolytic capacitor K resistor 50 K trimmer potentiometer Audio transformer 2N3906 PNP transistor 2N3904 NPN transistor 5VDC relay N4001 silicon diode 100W resistor 8W speaker Cadmium sulfide (CdS) photocell small solderless breadboard 22 AWG solid wire Digital multimeter Oscilloscope (optional) Electronic tools www.it-ebooks.info CHAPTER ■ Electronic Singing Bird Figure 1-1 Parts required for the Arduino-based electronic singing bird What Is Physical Computing? The interaction between a human, an electronic circuit, and a sensor is physical computing In this project I will demonstrate physical computing with an electronic singing bird Placing a hand over the sensor allows the electronic circuit to produce a sound similar to a singing bird Figure 1-2 shows a system block diagram of the mixed-signal circuit connected to an Arduino 8Ω Speaker Light Detection Circuit Arduino Transistor Relay Driver Circuit Electronic Oscillator Circuit Figure 1-2 System block diagram for the electronic singing bird ■■Note  An electronic oscillator is a circuit that produces a repetitive sine wave or square wave signal www.it-ebooks.info CHAPTER ■ Electronic Singing Bird How It Works The operation of the electronic singing bird starts with a cadmium sulfide (CdS) cell (photocell) detecting the absence of light If no light is present, a voltage drop appears across the light-dependent resistor The voltage across the CdS cell is approximately +2.5VDC, allowing the D2 pin of the Arduino to respond to the binary logic signal The software that is programmed into the Atmega328 microcontroller will turn on the D13 pin, making it switch from a binary (0 V) to a binary (+5VDC) With an output voltage of +5VDC, the transistor Q2 is able to turn on, allowing it to switch or energize the K1 relay coil The iron core that is inside of the relay coil establishes a magnetic field attracting the electrical contact to the armature or common (COM) contact The closing of the relay contacts will supply +5VDC to the electronic oscillator circuit The chirping sound can be heard through the 8W speaker ■■Note  The ability to apply the appropriate voltage and current to the base of a transistor to turn it on is known as biasing Conducting a deep dive into the system block diagram reveals the circuit schematic diagram of the electronic singing bird shown in Figure 1-3 Figure 1-3 Schematic diagram for the electronic singing bird circuit www.it-ebooks.info CHAPTER ■ Electronic Singing Bird If you change the capacitance value of C3 (470uF), the electronic singing bird’s tone duration will be affected The smaller the capacitance value, the faster the time between bird chips heard through the 8W speaker The rheostat (50 K trimmer potentiometer) affects the switching time of the chirps This control provides flexibility in terms of the type of chirp that can be heard through the 8W speaker The shape of the waveform is based on the 470uF capacitor charging from the +5VDC power supply and discharging through the K resistor This charging-and-discharging electrical behavior biases the 2N3906 PNP transistor, thereby allowing it to switch on and off at a repetitive rate The series combination of resistors, consisting of a 1OK fixed resistor and 50 K trimmer potentiometer, helps manage the switching time of the charging-and-discharging capacitor mentioned before Capacitors C2 (47 nF) and C1 (100 nF) help reduce the switching noise peak voltage levels of C2 The pulse-generated signal is magnetically coupled to the 8W speaker by the audio transformer To further analyze the bird’s electronic oscillator, I built a circuit model using Multisim software Running a simulation event produced the output signal captured on a virtual oscilloscope, as shown in Figure 1-4 Figure 1-4 One cycle of a pulse wave captured on a Multisim virtual oscilloscope ■■Note  Multisim is an intuitive software package capable of capturing circuit designs and testing electrical behaviors through simulation www.it-ebooks.info CHAPTER ■ Electronic Singing Bird I was able to capture an actual pulsed waveform using an oscilloscope, as shown in Figure 1-5 The setup I used in capturing the pulsed signal is shown in Figure 1-6 The waveform has a frequency of approximately 1.2KHz, and it cycles approximately every second As mentioned earlier, the duration, or cycling, of the pulsed signal can be changed by adjusting the 50 K potentiometer Figure 1-5 The pulsed waveform signal displayed on an oscilloscope ■■Tip  Modeling electronic circuits using simulation software will provide baseline information on the electrical behavior of the target system Sometimes the data obtained from a simulated model may be different from the actual circuit As shown in Figure 1-4, the signal shows the rising edge of the waveform captured on the oscilloscope pictured in Figure 1-6 The rising edge of a waveform is the transition from OV to the peak voltage (Vp) The measurement setup was made by removing the 8W speaker from the secondary winding of the audio transformer and attaching an oscilloscope across it to capture the pulsed waveform signal Figure 1-7 illustrates the measurement technique I used to capture the pulse waveform signal on the virtual oscilloscope The signal is a derivation of a pulse width modulation, which is used in various electronic oscillators to create special-effect sounds www.it-ebooks.info CHAPTER ■ Electronic Singing Bird Figure 1-6 Test setup for displaying the pulsed waveform signal from the electronic oscillator circuit Figure 1-7 Circuit schematic diagram showing the oscilloscope attachment to the audio transformer for capturing a pulsed waveform signal www.it-ebooks.info ■ Index PWM signal under ambient lighting, 140 with hand passing over the photocell, 140 Piezo buzzer, 141 Robot end effector test stand application, 177–178 n  S Sequential-switching software ATmega328 microcontroller, 65–67 interactive LED light sequencer sketch, 64–65 Servo motor control Arduino-based computing platform, 92 Arduino-based system block diagram, 90 controlling with Arduino, 93 discovery methods, 117 FFS FlexiForce-operated controller, 103, 104 Fritzing circuit, 104 input interface circuit, 103 prototype, 105 tactile force, 102 Fritzing software Arduino-based controller prototype, 95 circuit, 94 description, 94 sweep sketch, 95–96 joystick circuit diagram, 101 description, 100 mechanical linkage assembly, 100, 101 prototype, 102 soldered pigtail wire harness, 102 negative feedback, 93 parts, 89, 90 potentiometer, 97 circuit diaram, 98 Fritzing circuit, 98 Knob sketch, 99, 100 prototype, 99 pulse widths, 92 remixed FlexiForce sensor-activated block diagram, 91 testing, 116 wiring, 93 Seven-segment LED display Arduino Flasher-Tester system block diagram, 40 circuit diagram, 41 common anode display, 41, 42 completed circuit, 42, 43 potentiometer LED Control Sketch, 43–44 Arduino prototype, 219 arrangements, 37 BCD-to-Decimal circuit, 46–47 circuit diagram, 212 component, 38 numbers creation, 211, 212 serial monitor display, 219, 220 sketch, 213–219 testing, 38–40 Smart Logic Probe circuit sketch, 220–223 improved, 224–226 prototype, 223 Speed control function circuit diagram, 115 stepper_speedControl Sketch, 115–116 Stepper motor control Arduino-based system block diagram, 91 discovery methods, 117 parts, 89, 90 remixed FlexiForce sensor-activated block diagram, 91 testing, 116 unipolar (see Unipolar Stepper Motor) n  T Temperature controller circuit diagram, 245, 246 description, 245 prototype, 245, 248 sketch, 246–247 Temperature measurement computer thermometer block diagram, 232 circuit diagram, 233 data start switch, 233, 235 description, 232 final completion, 235–239 LM35 Sensor Sketch, 232–233 Serial Monitor displaying sensor data, 233, 234 temperature monitor, 239–243 temperature sensor prototype, 233, 234 testing temperature sensor, 233, 235 description, 227 digital voltmeter system block diagram, 229 discovery method, 248 electronic thermometer circuit diagram, 229 computer ribbon cable, 229, 230 description, 229 LM35-based, 231 LM35 precision centigrade temperature sensor IC T0-92 package, 231 ribbon end connectors, 230 257 www.it-ebooks.info ■ Index Temperature measurement (cont.) LCD electronic thermometer block diagram, 243 circuit diagram, 243 description, 243 prototype, 244 Sensor Data to Temperature Sketch, 244–245 parts, 227–228 precision centigrade temperature sensor, 228 temperature controller circuit diagram, 245, 246 description, 245 prototype, 245, 248 sketch, 246–247 working procedure, 228–229 Temperature monitor block diagram, 239 circuit diagram, 239, 240 LM35 Farenheit Temperature with Dual LED Flash Rates Sketch, 242–243 with Flashing LED Sketch, 240–241 room temperature response, 241 Test jig systems block diagram, 183 command-control codes, 184 contact bounce and debounce circuit operation, 185 debounce circuit, 184, 185 letters, numbers, and character codes, 188 prototype, 187 Three-key music box controller circuit diagram, 145, 146 prototype, 146 toneKeyboard Sketch, 147 Transistor biasing, function generator, switching circuit, Transistor relay driver block diagram, 71 circuit diagram, 72 DC motor control circuit Arduino-based circuit diagram, 77 circuit diagram, 75 multisim circuit model analysis, 76 n  U Unipolar stepper motor Arduino-based actual build, 111 circuit diagram, 111 Darlington transistor driver, 110 Easter egg, 112 Knob sketch, 113 Serial Monitor access, 114 stepper_oneRevolution Sketch, 112 description, 107 Multisim digital controller model circuit diagram, 108, 109 CW/CCW timing diagrams, 110 description, 108 virtual Function Generator setup, 109 sink driver circuit, 107, 108 speed control function, 114 circuit diagram, 114, 115 stepper_speedControl Sketch, 115–116 n  V, X, Y, Z Vibration motor Arduino computational platform, 153, 154 Arduino port D5 circuit diagram, 157 Itotal, 159 output voltage, 156, 157 22AWG stranded wire, 153, 154 circuit diagram, 158 description, 152 examples, 152 Itotal measurement, 156 joystick-controlled block diagram, 159, 160 circuit diagram, 160 prototype, 161 PWM signal, 161–162 Ra current measurement, 153, 155 recycled, 153 stepper motor control sketch, 162–163 test sketch, 156 Voltage divider, electronic singing bird, 12–14 258 www.it-ebooks.info Learn Electronics with Arduino Donald Wilcher www.it-ebooks.info Learn Electronics with Arduino Copyright © 2012 by Donald Wilcher This work is subject to copyright All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only 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Electronic Singing Bird .1 Parts List What Is Physical Computing? How It Works Pulse Width Modulation Basics Transistor Basics Transformer Action The Voltage Divider 12 Light Detection Circuits with a Photocell 14 Testing the Light Detection Circuit with a Voltmeter and an Oscilloscope 15 Assembly of the Electronic Singing Bird Circuit on a Breadboard 20 Creating the Interactive Control Software 22 What Is a Sketch? 23 Final Testing of the Electronic Singing Bird 24 Further Discovery Methods 25 vii www.it-ebooks.info ■ Contents ■■Chapter 2: Mini Digital Roulette Games 27 Parts List 27 How It Works 29 Forward Biasing a LED 30 LED Circuit Analysis 31 The LED Bar Display 32 Mini Roulette Game, Version 34 Adding the Game Software 35 The Seven-Segment LED Display Basics 37 Testing the Seven-Segment LED Display 38 Build an Arduino-based Seven Segment LED Display Flasher-Tester 40 The 7447 BCD-to-Decoder IC Basics 44 Build a BCD-to-Decimal Circuit with Seven Segment LED Display 46 Assembly of the Final Circuit on the Breadboard 47 Adding the Mini Digital Roulette Game Software 48 Final Testing of the Mini Digital Roulette Game 48 Further Discovery Method Suggestions 48 ■■Chapter 3: An Interactive Light Sequencer Device 51 Parts List 51 Remix Revisited 52 How It Works 54 The Potentiometer 54 Measurement Setup Procedure 56 How to Drive Multiple LEDs with a Microcontroller 59 Building the Remixed Interactive LED Sequencer Device 63 Creating the Sequential-Switching Software 64 Final Testing of the Interactive Light Sequencer Device 67 Further Discovery Methods 67 viii www.it-ebooks.info ■ Contents ■Chapter 4: Physical Computing and DC Motor Control 69 Parts Lists 69 Remixing Revisited 70 How It Works 71 A Base Biasing Transistor Driver Circuit 72 D1: Flyback Diode 74 Experimenting with a Transistor Relay Driver DC Motor Control Circuit 75 Electromechanical Relay Preparation 78 The Basics of Physical Computing with Electric Motors 80 Achieving Motor Speed Control with Physical Computing 81 Potentiometer Input Control 81 The 2N2222 Transistor Pinout 84 The Motor Speed Control Software 85 Light Detection Input Control 85 Final Testing of the Devices 87 Further Discovery Methods 87 ■Chapter 5: Motion Control with an Arduino: Servo and Stepper Motor Controls 89 Parts List 89 Remixing Motion Controls 90 How It Works 92 Experimenting with a Servo Motor 93 Fritzing Software 94 Try It! 97 Physical Computing: A Servo Motor with a Potentiometer 97 Physical Computing: A Servo Motor with a Joystick 100 Physical Computing: A Servo Motor with a FlexiForce Sensor 102 Motion Control Basics 105 ix www.it-ebooks.info ■ Contents The Darlington Transistor 105 The Unipolar Stepper Motor 107 A Multisim Digital Controller Model for a Unipolar Stepper Motor 108 Build an Arduino Unipolar Stepper Motor Controller 110 Adding a Speed Control Function 114 Final Testing of the Servo and Stepper Motor Controllers 116 Further Discovery Method Suggestions 117 ■■Chapter 6: The Music Box 119 Parts List 119 Remixing Physical-Computing and Driver Interface Circuits 120 How It Works 122 Experimenting with PWM 123 Building and Testing a Basic Music Box Controller 127 Try It! 130 Driving a Speaker 133 Physical Computing and the Music Box Controller 135 What Is a PMOSFET? 136 A PMOSFET Multisim Circuit Model 137 Sketch for the Interactive Music Box Controller 141 Building and Testing a Basic Music Box Controller with a Keypad 145 Final Testing of the Music Box Controllers 148 Further Discovery Methods 148 ■■Chapter 7: Fun with Haptics 149 Parts List 149 Remixing Physical Computing and Driver Interface Circuits 150 How It Works 152 Experimenting with a Vibration Motor 152 x www.it-ebooks.info ■ Contents Physical Computing: A Vibration Motor 159 Try It Out 163 Keypad Haptics 165 Mechatronics and Haptics 174 FlexiForce Sensor Haptics 174 A Robot End Effector Test Stand 177 Final Testing of Haptics Controllers 178 Further Discovery Method Suggestions 178 ■■Chapter 8: LCDs and the Arduino 179 Parts List 179 Remixing Physical-Computing Input Interface Circuits 180 How It Works: The LCD Test Jig 183 The Real “Hello World”: Arduino and the LCD 187 Try It Out! 192 The Vanishing Message 198 Building an Evaluation Board 200 Further Discovery Methods 204 ■■Chapter 9: A Logic Checker 205 Parts List 205 Input Interface Circuits 206 How It Works 206 Testing a NAND Gate 208 The Seven-Segment LED Display and the Arduino 211 Building a Smart Logic Probe 220 Building an Improved Smart Logic Probe 224 Further Discovery Methods 226 xi V413HAV www.it-ebooks.info ■ Contents ■■Chapter 10: Man, It’s Hot: Temperature Measurement and Control 227 Parts List 227 What Is a Precision Centigrade Temperature Sensor? 228 How It Works 228 Building an Electronic Thermometer 229 A Computer Thermometer 232 Final Completion of Computer Thermometer 235 Try It Out! 239 An LCD Electronic Thermometer 243 A Temperature Controller 245 Further Discovery Method 248 Final Thoughts and Suggestions 248 Index 251 xii www.it-ebooks.info Foreword Don Wilcher is a gifted experimenter and circuit designer who has applied his creativity and engineering abilities to producing a series of electronics books and articles In this latest book, Don presents an array of Arduino projects, each in a standalone chapter that zeroes in on a specific aspect of electronics He includes various experiments, describes how to use electronic test instruments, and introduces the reader to the world of Arduino microcontroller software development Projects in this book include an LED sequencer, a DC motor controller, a music box, a sound effects generator, an interactive LCD display, and more Like Don’s other books, this new volume is packed with details and diagrams For example, when Don describes how to control a relay using an Arduino, he includes a helpful explanation of why a diode is connected across the relay coil to bypass the voltage spike generated when current suddenly stops flowing through the coil He also provides detailed explanations for transistor driver circuits, LEDs, sensors, circuit testing, and other topics, using Multisim circuit simulation when appropriate Don is no novice, for he has worked as an electrical engineer and as a columnist and feature writer for Nuts and Volts magazine He has considerable experience with LEGO Mindstorms as well as the Basic Stamp, the PICAXE, and the Arduino microcontrollers In between tinkering with the projects in this book, you can learn much more about Don, his many interests and activities, and his advocacy of engineering education at www.family-science.net —Forrest Mims III xiii www.it-ebooks.info About the Author Donald Wilcher has 26 years of electrical engineering experience He’s worked on industrial robotic systems, automotive electronic modules and systems, and embedded wireless controls for small consumer appliances While working at Chrysler Corporation, he developed a weekend enrichment pre-engineering program for inner-city kids In addition, he’s the author of LEGO Mindstorms Interfacing and LEGO Mindstorms Mechatronics (McGraw-Hill) and one self-published book on sci-tech and robotic gadgets He writes for inventors, students, and engineering educators He’s taught computer and electronics engineering technology classes at universities, community colleges, and technical institutes xv www.it-ebooks.info About the Technical Reviewer Razvan Chiriac was born in Bucharest, Romania and went to school there until tenth grade, when he and his family moved to the United States He was fascinated by electronics and physics at a young age Electronics was a mystery and physics had the answers to everything around him Once in the States, he started making robots and programming microchips such as Arduino and Teensy He likes programming in C for the microchips and Java for computer programming He has worked on many projects with the Arduino, which is his favorite microcontroller xvii www.it-ebooks.info Acknowledgments Many thanks to the Arduino Team, who created a wonderful tool to teach electronics I would like to thank Technical Reviewer Razvan Chiriac for reviewing the circuits, sketches, and Fritzing models with a critical eye Thanks also to Development Editor and writing coach Tom Welsh of Apress for challenging me to let my voice be heard in the pages of this book and to Michelle Lowman, Apress Acquisitions Editor, who saw the real subject matter of this book from my sketchy proposal I would also like to thank Limor Fried of Adafruit for providing a wealth of technical Arduino resources on her web site Thanks to Forrest Mims III for writing a wonderful foreword Also, I thank my kids, D’Vonn, D’Mar, and Tiana, for being understanding while I spent most of my time in the lab building circuits, drawing schematic diagrams and illustrations, and writing this book Finally, I thank my wonderful wife, Mattalene, for encouraging to me write and for providing a fresh perspective to editing the manuscript xix www.it-ebooks.info ... sketch, along with the community website presented earlier, can help make your process of learning and exploring electronics with the Arduino fun and easy Once you enter the code into the Arduino processing... editor for typos that could be causing the Arduino to operate improperly Further Discovery Methods To keep the excitement of learning electronics with Arduino burning, explore how an additional... Control with an Arduino: Servo and Stepper Motor Controls 89 ■■Chapter 6: The Music Box 119 ■■Chapter 7: Fun with Haptics 149 ■■Chapter 8: LCDs and the Arduino